package de.dopichaj.labrador.index.lucene;


import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher;
import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;

import de.dopichaj.labrador.index.XMLIndexWriter;

public interface LuceneIndex {
    
    public IndexReader getReader() throws IOException;
    /**
     * Get an index writer.
     * @param create flag whether the writer should be opened in create mode.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public XMLIndexWriter getWriter(boolean create) throws IOException;
    public Searcher getSearcher() throws IOException;
    /**
     * Get a Lucene directory identified by the given name.
     * @param create if the directory shall be opened in create mode.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public Directory getDirectory(String name, boolean create) throws IOException;
    public FragmentIDMap getFragmentIDMap() throws IOException;
    
    public Analyzer getAnalyzer();
}
/*
Copyright (c) 2005 Benedikt Eger
Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Philipp Dopichaj

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